Federal workers’ unions increasingly at odds over replacing Phoenix pay system - Global News

The federal team charged with finding a replacement for the government’s troubled Phoenix pay system will present the Liberals with options within weeks that are expected to include “multiple pilot projects,” government officials say.The plan could pit at least two of the three potential bidders on the projects against each other in a competition to see which system works better, either independently or in tandem with one another.Story continues below“In the coming weeks, the next-generation team will present options to the government for next steps, which will likely include multiple pilot projects to test possible solutions beginning later this year,” Treasury Board spokesman Farees Nathoo told The Canadian Press in an email.READ MORE: Cost of replacing botched Phoenix pay system pales compared to cost of fixing it: PBOThe proposal is laying bare divisions among the unions representing the roughly 300,000 federal employees who have been living under the Phoenix pay cloud for more than three years.One of those unions, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, says the move is wrongheaded and could result in another bungled pay system.Testing separate pay systems through individual government departments, or in groups of departments, could produce problems for federal employees similar to those being experienced under the current, flawed system, warns PSAC national president Chris Aylward.“That is very concerning because they have no clue about the way forward,” Aylward said.WATCH: Liberals blame Harper government for troubled Phoenix pay system

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May 19, 2019 at 08:17PM